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PC Gaming ERA | September 2019 - The Girls Are Back In Town
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Or you could condemn them for not bothering with the simple task of putting a denuvoless binary on Steam?
This is the reverse situation of what happens to gog, where they leave the drmless versions of games to rot without updates.
Only thing i'm mad about is WB pretending like Origins doesn't exist once again.
That game is better than Arkham Knight, don't @ me.
That game is better than Arkham Knight, don't @ me.
I mean it's been almost 5 years since its launch on steam
I don't care that much
I don't care about the game either, it was shit then and it remains shit now. But I certainly care about the principle of it.
Got through Alan Wake and American Nightmare the past couple days. American Nightmare performed a lot better but oddly really pushed my GPU. Ended up lowering the graphics from High to Low and... It looked exactly the same to me but wasn't making my 750 TI blow it's brains out.
Good games! Control is a definite improvement in writing/performances, though.
Good games! Control is a definite improvement in writing/performances, though.
Well, Indivisible's regional pricing in Malaysia sucks. I can get it cheaper at Gamersgate UK.
But!
I know Valve changed their key activation system recently and mostly disallowed activation via VPNs. Going by the game's SteamDB page, I believe I can activate a UK key anywhere in the world though, right?
But!
I know Valve changed their key activation system recently and mostly disallowed activation via VPNs. Going by the game's SteamDB page, I believe I can activate a UK key anywhere in the world though, right?
You're fine. The CPU isn't half bad as far as older ones go, and the Quadro K2100M ~ GeForce GTX 750M ~ GT 640, the last of which manages an average of roughly 50fps at 1080p + max settings in Diablo 3:
Oh wow that's way better than what i was expecting. I would have been happy with a steady 30fps on the lowest settings lolYou're fine. The CPU isn't half bad as far as older ones go, and the Quadro K2100M ~ GeForce GTX 750M ~ GT 640, the last of which manages an average of roughly 50fps at 1080p + max settings in Diablo 3:
And i appreciate the help. I am a console gamer and never had a gaming PC in my life. Just used whatever laptop i had to place a game here or there. So I had no idea how to tell how capable the computer was.
Cheers. I know always ask this kind of thing when purchasing keys, but I seem to second-guess myself like crazy for some reason. :)
It's only beta, but GOG galaxy 2 still lacks that quick lunch context menu, like when you right click the tray icon and it shows you a short list of your most recently played games. Even Playnite have it. It's one of those features I really appreciate.
You might want to take a look in the gaming laptop thread. I know you said it's not for gaming but people there might be able to make alternative recommendations regardless.
Funny thing is five days later it is still possible to do this. Crazy times when EGS is giving away Borderlands 3 for free a week after launch ;)
Late reply but I wanted to comment on this.
I stopped the video after his first example (New Vegas).
I'm so tired of people saying conversations and decision making in social interactions in a game isn't gameplay. Of course it's fucking gameplay... so in Planescape Torment you don't play a game? You don't tweak systems and strategize point distribution to win conflicts? You don't navigate through dialog options to choose the best approach? (Although here I'll grant that the highlighting of good/bad choices is pretty lousy game design, newer games like Witcher 3 and even Alpha Protocol do a much better job at making you THINK about what the best dialog is for each situation, not just picking the colored option).
His remark that during New Vegas' example peaceful solution you "simply press buttons... and you win", well you can also headshot Chavez from afar with a single button press (I did that on my playthrough).
Again, sorry for the late rant but this kind of thinking is really pervasive among gaming communities.
Gameplay is not just action sequences and shooting kneecaps.
Putting points into speech and auto winning in conversations isn't very compelling gameplay, if it's gameplay at all. Planescape Torment has more advanced, complex conversations which is a step in the right direction. But to use your example with Chavez, you can indeed headshot him with a single button press. Or melee him. Or shoot him up close. Or throw grenades at him. There's far more options in combat than speech.
All things change in a dynamic environment. Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you. (The Major will return)
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Eh, I would say it is compelling gameplay because it is a direct result of how you built/are building your character. It is a result of the gameplay that came before. If a character's particular skill is too low it is something that you miss or a conversation goes another way. If you make a high-charisma eloquent character in a RPG then choosing dialogue options is the gameplay you went for.
I agree that there should be more done to dialogues in videogames though I see the work more to be directed at the writing and dialogue trees. maybe even combine it with the exploring where you get more options because you know more about the game's world (some games do this).The Griftland example works for Griftlands. I honestly don't see it working for a RPG with a stronger focus on writing. Convincing a character at a critical story beat with a mini game where your character says "consider this" while activating a trap card would be counterproductive imo.
While that's not the way the author of the video wants to play games, he makes a lot of presumptions by simplifying it down to "skipping gameplay". What makes many of Fallout: New Vegas' "skipping" fun is that agency over events is based on how you've developed your character. Not everyone with 100 speech will pick speech 100% of the time. You don't have to just because you can. Just like you don't need to pull out a mini-nuke on any random bandit. It's just one of the options you have, because over the course of the game you've probably specialized in few specific areas. To see those choices reflected in the gameplay (the agency I have as a player over what's happening in an interactive medium) is a lot more valuable to me than the four pre-defined choices like in DXHR, whereby it's often a crapshoot if it'll work at all. To me, more varied choices which include auto-win stat checks are more fun satisfying than shooting, grenading, sniping or dialog hedge mazes. A lot of these games where it happens aren't exactly Doom 2016 in the "gameplay " department to begin with. If I can avoid combat, that's a net win already.
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I don't have high hopes for it :(
I'll stick to Jedi Outcast for the Switch, coming out next week.
And I agree with that, I didn't have issues with your post at all. My rant was 100% aimed at the video (its beginning anyway) and his postulate about what constitutes gameplay and what doesn't.
Even some old games where the systems relied on "speech" meters or alignment/faction scores you still had interesting developments, PST for example used them to open new branches of dialog which enriched your experience of the game (the same way your example of variety on how to kill someone achieved).
Putting points into charisma or speech often means you take points out from other places, which changes your game by limiting what you can do, and allows for interesting branching storylines, also enticing replayability.
Heck I remember doing Deus Ex "Let's kill everyone I can" walkthroughs back in the day. Let's not kill anyone can be pretty challenging as well and fits into that mentality.
It just sucks that some of the old games' developers didn't have entirely figured out how to make those aspects as engaging as shooting weapons, which is something gaming had much more experience in doing at the time.
I like to think those games were testing grounds of this idea of nuanced and non violent gameplay, and that developers were laying the foundation of what we have today.
I find that hard to believe.
If it's true, then pirates would be already playing the game right now without having to worry about the DRM.
Pirates probably dont want to pay an upfront 60€ (to download the game) and later having to ask for a refund for it to work. Still, it has Denuvo, so it should have a way to block you from playing once your Denuvo access lapses, which I think is monthly? (unless somehow, denuvo servers dont check Steam / Epic ownership)
Also, I posted it yesterday, but it somehow died a fast dead so a repost is important:
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/webapi/icloudservice
Steam now offers an easy API to have cross save cloud saves, which means we were right with the Larian stuff:
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/webapi/icloudservice
Steam now offers an easy API to have cross save cloud saves, which means we were right with the Larian stuff:
I was thinking about how people who have done that would simply upload the game to the Internet. Especially since the install directory and executable are still there.
Denuvo tho. You would need to get through it which to get the access, which is the main issue.
But how does Denuvo check your license if you can just run the game from the executable without the EGS launcher?
I'm starting to really doubt that claim from Twitter.
Denuvo only checks rights every once in a while (that is what allows you to play Denuvo games offline after your first check in). Which is why I said:
"should have a way to block you from playing once your Denuvo access lapses, which I think is monthly?"
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From Segas Denuvo Q&A:
Which if I understand, means that when the game is installed, Steam / Epic verify the game. Having the files does not mean that the game is verified as the installation hasnt been verified.
I actually reported your post in other thread asking mods to change title to confirmed and nobody did that. And thread died. But don't worry soon enough somebody will post thread on gaming side how Valve does nothing :D
Ah okay, I totally missed that part from your earlier post, I guess. That makes sense then.
Lemme find the thread and I'll bump it.
Game uses Denuvo. It will work until Denuvo deactivates. (hardware or windows change). Which also prevents sharing.
Pirates absolutely abuse this even with Steam (using cracked Steam client/api to bypass Steam DRM)
I agree. It is one of the features which I use all the time on Steam.
Want to get your Shenmue 3 Steam key?
YSnet (seemingly) lying through their teeth (again):
YSnet (seemingly) lying through their teeth (again):
Everyone will still lap it up. The brand is strong in this one.
I tried but I am on mobile until the evening and the only posts I can threadmark seem to be my own.
Nah SW brand went down in popularity since Episode VII. Add to that 2 botched game releases and Episode VIII and things are not looking that hot.
Like Eonden posted it is currently possible but maybe in a months time that access will be revoked (or whenever Denuvo calls base). The problem is, if you were to firewall block Borderlands 3, which would remove multiplayer access yes, then Denuvo wouldn't be able to phone home. That is clearly stated in the offline mode section of Denuvo's FAQ so Denuvo themselves have a built in way of circumventing their DRM, at least from how I'm reading it. Even then we aren't sure whether EGS acts like Steam as at this moment that isn't the case because you can simply play it from the .exe without even having EGS installed.
Difference with Steam and Denuvo is the DRM protects Steam's own DRM as a wrapper around, hence why you need cracked .dll to pirate Steam games. This is all conjecture on my part though, I have literally no idea if it will be correct but going off current data it seems that indeed those who refund, or even just close EGS and play the game through its .exe, can indeed still play perfectly fine.
One thing that is quite strange to see on this forum, at least from some people.
I remember when the EGS finally added cloud-saves a lot of people were: "Wow. Thats great! Battling with Valve!"
Now...
-New Steam library view
-New Steam Lab Update
-Literally an API for cross plattform cloud saves.
(Besides all that stuff from last year and beginning of this year like SteamLink Android etc.)
No big interest.
I mean a cross plattform cloud save API sounds like great news to me.
I remember when the EGS finally added cloud-saves a lot of people were: "Wow. Thats great! Battling with Valve!"
Now...
-New Steam library view
-New Steam Lab Update
-Literally an API for cross plattform cloud saves.
(Besides all that stuff from last year and beginning of this year like SteamLink Android etc.)
No big interest.
I mean a cross plattform cloud save API sounds like great news to me.
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